CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO 908

Here’s your chance to win a €15 book token. Complete the crossword using either the cryptic or the quick clues and send it to us with your name and address. Send your solution to: Cryptic/Quick Crossword No.908, The Irish Mail on Sunday, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Entries must be received by Thursday. The winner will be drawn from a hat. The winner of Cryptic/Quick Crossword No.907 is Rosemary Lee, of Cork City.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

9 Reaching extremes, having to depend (5)

10 Personal designer making parade first (9)

11 I test duet out – it’s poor (9)

12 Father also included a bear (5)

13 Writer reviewed clip

about space (6)

14 Changes are manic from the

other side of the pond (8)

16 Having money, but thinner (7)

18 Present in this place, or not in any (7)

20 I am back to get two men impersonated (8)

22 Terror getting fellow on side (6)

25 Feeling that may be common (5) 26 One musical fellow returned

– hardly original (9)

28 Staying power, running

under cane (9)

29 Classroom helper finds

lettuce in a foreign dish (5)

Down

1 Conservative owned a country (4) 2 College boy is in agreement (6)

3 Doctor at home with

European remedy (8)

4 Porter is full of determination (5)

5 Receiving data, like a bad cold (9) 6 Head for every hat (6)

7 Clan spread in tree top (8)

8 Completion arranged at main tent (10)

13 Wizard finished stream off (4,6) 15 Capitalists were Asian then, somehow (9)

17 Left omen about keys?

That’s soft (8)

19 Promise to be cautious

about tirade (8)

21 Food for singer by railway (6)

23 Malfunction fixing, ending

large irritation (6)

24 Fix unending stream on time (5) 27 Pleased with relaxation (4)